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Boris has been fined - Part 2

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cakeorwine · 13/04/2022 21:00

Because this is going to go on and on.....
With more fines

Part 1 here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4528104-boris-has-been-fined-tory-voters-should-he-go

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DuncinToffee · 14/04/2022 13:58

A death?

ancientgran · 14/04/2022 14:00

@Roussette

Oh my goodness ancientgran that is horrible. I had rib/muscle ache from coughing but absolutely nothing remotely like that, and it was only for a day or two. Yes bones heal but still really ghastly Flowers
I'm so scared to sneeze, it is terrifying.
ancientgran · 14/04/2022 14:04

@littledrummergirl

Ancientgran I know how you feel. Day 14 for me. Although testing negative I'm still coughing. Dh woke me up last night as I was choking. Today my cheeks are flushed again and I have a slight temperature. Dh and I are supposed to be going away tonight for a couple of days without the dc. I'm feeling sorry for myself today and more pissed off with the government and Conservative party members
I hope it doesn't drag on for you. I went into the pharmacy this morning as I needed pain killers and I was on the verge of tears when they were asking how I was (I got my antibiotics there so they knew I'd been ill.) I feel such a wimp.
ancientgran · 14/04/2022 14:06

@itsgettingweird

Sorry for all those still suffering covid and it's affects.

I had it again in January and luckily this time it was just like a case of viral tonsillitis. So I felt very rough for 48 hours but recovered well after. Probably didn't feel right for 3-4 days and that was it.

It's certainly a nasty virus - even this lesser virulent strain.

Ironically I had it before, when it was supposed to be more serious, and I was asymptomatic. You'd think after 3 jabs and antibodies from actually having it I'd sail through it this time.

It is a weird virus, very unpredictable.

DowningStreetParty · 14/04/2022 14:27

I’ve refreshed the suitcase with chilled beverages, feel like we’re gonna need it today. Also have an ABBA soundtrack on, in a nod to the forthcoming bank holidays.

Everyone who said the Rwanda plan announcement plan was going to be a massive distraction is right. Plus the ‘don’t you know there’s a war on?’ narrative (which was literally the front page of the Daily Mail yesterday) when we’re not at war. People who are saying they ‘don’t care about the PM eating cake’ are completely missing the point about the generalised corruption that is being repeatedly greenlit.

My Tory MP is totally unsuitable for the role, uninterested in national or international events at the best of times, and currently ignoring all this in favour of self-aggrandising electioneering for the Tory party in advance of the local council elections. It’s infuriating.

itsgettingweird · 14/04/2022 14:29

Ancientgran it's completely an odd virus. My mum has had 4 jabs as she was on chemo (stopped now as just palliative care.) the same weekend I said how sore my throat was and as we had covid in class I was convinced I had it (LFT was negative for first 2 days!) she mentioned hers was a little sore too. Tested LFT for her chemo 3 days later and positive. Chemo cancelled. 3 days later she tested negative.

She's the one person we were terrified of catching it Confused

I'm as worried as the above poster about what will happen next to distract from the fines. Although apparently Priti Patel has been in Rwanda for a while sealing this deal.

DowningStreetParty · 14/04/2022 14:40

Flowers everyone struggling with Covid

Boris will explain his version of events to Parliament next week. Either everyone will have forgotten about this issue by then, as the news cycle moves on, or his explanations will be coinciding with news about further FPN fines.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61105335

Peregrina · 14/04/2022 14:48

Just seen Johnson sounding off about his vile Rwanda policy and declaring that it is one of the benefits of Brexit.

Of course, what he didn't bother to say was that when we were in the EU we could have sent them back to other countries they had come via.

Why not go the full Nazi and tell us that he thinks black and brown skinned people, especially if Muslim, are sub-human? (Of course, it doesn't fit with the Churchill schtick.)

When can we rid ourselves of this vile government?

littledrummergirl · 14/04/2022 14:49

It's funny, I've had two phone appointments booked this morning and they both rearranged as apparently I sound dreadful. One told me to call a doctor for advice. It's a good job they didn't see me a week ago.

FatCatThinCat · 14/04/2022 15:17

Do we know yet if the party organisers are getting the £10k fines?

And what about the attempts to clean up people's phones and get rid of evidence? Are the police looking into that because that's prison sentence level law breaking.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 14/04/2022 15:19

Do we know yet if the party organisers are getting the £10k fines?

They'd have to find out who they were first; it's hardly likely anyone will volunteer that information, especially as you said yourself with the phone-clearing Hmm

Peregrina · 14/04/2022 15:21

They'd have to find out who they were first; it's hardly likely anyone will volunteer that information, especially as you said yourself with the phone-clearing

I assume that the person who sent out the email invitation to the bring your own booze party would be one in the frame.

Others - people who can be shown to have purchased the booze and food. (Moral, pay cash so that you don't get caught.)

itsgettingweird · 14/04/2022 15:38

What's this about phone clearing?

There really isn't any level they won't stop to is there? Angry

Puzzledandpissedoff · 14/04/2022 15:45

Here you go, itsgettingweird - though apologies because I should have said "reportedly clearing phones"

www.businessinsider.com/downing-street-staff-clean-up-phones-may-be-crime-ico-2022-1?r=US&IR=T

DuncinToffee · 14/04/2022 15:50

Didn't Johnson forget about his whatsapp conversation with the donor who paid for his wallpaper (sorry forgot his name) because he got a new phone?

ancientgran · 14/04/2022 15:51

@itsgettingweird

Ancientgran it's completely an odd virus. My mum has had 4 jabs as she was on chemo (stopped now as just palliative care.) the same weekend I said how sore my throat was and as we had covid in class I was convinced I had it (LFT was negative for first 2 days!) she mentioned hers was a little sore too. Tested LFT for her chemo 3 days later and positive. Chemo cancelled. 3 days later she tested negative.

She's the one person we were terrified of catching it Confused

I'm as worried as the above poster about what will happen next to distract from the fines. Although apparently Priti Patel has been in Rwanda for a while sealing this deal.

I'm sorry to hear your mum is so ill but yes it is weird how people can surprise us with how they throw it off. I've been worried all the way through as DH is overweight, 75, disabled, he hasn't caught it off me and is fine.

Totally irrelevant to the thread but it's made my day, GS has come round to cut the grass for me. I'm so relieved as I just can't do it and it was getting so long. He's done the front and it looks great. I love teenage grandsons, they look after gran so well.

ancientgran · 14/04/2022 15:53

@Puzzledandpissedoff

Do we know yet if the party organisers are getting the £10k fines?

They'd have to find out who they were first; it's hardly likely anyone will volunteer that information, especially as you said yourself with the phone-clearing Hmm

For the party in the flat it has to be Mr or Mrs Johnson, no one else would arrange a party in their flat. I suppose the govt is mad enough that they will tell us the cleaning lady decided to throw a bash while she was doing the vacuuming.
Blossomtoes · 14/04/2022 15:58

The ABBA party was obviously organised by Carrie.

Rowlingfan · 14/04/2022 16:04

TokyoSushi

Sky News reporting now live from Rwanda saying that Priti Patel is there ready to sing 'the deal' tomorrow. I'm not sure what to say really...

What is she going to do? SING? Sweet Jesus and the little donkey, haven’t we all been through enough?

BringBackCoffeeCreams · 14/04/2022 16:11

This Rwanda plan is absolutely monstrous. The sheer inhumanity of it is terrifying.

DuncinToffee · 14/04/2022 16:30

But it is working, attention has been shifted away from Partygate.

SueSaid · 14/04/2022 16:36

@DuncinToffee

But it is working, attention has been shifted away from Partygate.
Do you think they've just come up with it in the last few days? Pulled it out of a hat to detract from, so far, pretty much a non event?

They'll have been working on it for months if not longer and what a good plan to deter people from paying a fortune to traffickers and then risking their lives in a dinghy.

BringBackCoffeeCreams · 14/04/2022 16:39

They'll have been working on it for months if not longer and what a good plan to deter people from paying a fortune to traffickers and then risking their lives in a dinghy.

Will you be cheering them on when they start deporting Ukrainian asylum seekers to Rwanda then?

HarrietPierce7 · 14/04/2022 16:42

Such a good plan JaniieJones. Your faux concern for these people is very apparent.

Notonthestairs · 14/04/2022 16:44

"They'll have been working on it for months if not longer and what a good plan to deter people from paying a fortune to traffickers and then risking their lives in a dinghy."

Well 8 days ago the Refugee minister knew absolutely nothing about it. He has an office on the same corridor as PP.

So something acted to speed up the process and it doesn't take a genius to work why that needed to happen now. Pritster returning the favour after the bullying inquiry.

Flying asylum seekers and refugees to Rwanda is neither humanitarian or cost effective.

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